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      Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver supports the use of JDBC basic and advanced data types within a Java application that uses SQL Server as its database.</p>
    <p>The JDBC type system mediates the conversion between SQL Server data types and Java language types and objects. The JDBC types are modeled on the SQL-92 and SQL-99 types. The JDBC driver adheres to the JDBC specification and is designed to provide the right balance between predictability and flexibility.</p>
    <p>The topics in this section describe how to use the basic and advanced data types, and how data types can be converted into other data types. </p>
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              <a href="d7044936-5b8c-4def-858c-28a11ef70a97.htm">Using Basic Data Types</a>
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            <p>Describes the JDBC basic data types. Includes examples of how to work with the data types by using result sets, parameterized queries, and stored procedures.</p>
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              <a href="07eb00dd-621a-46f9-a5a5-8cab4d6058b5.htm">Configuring How java.sql.Time Values are Sent to the Server</a>
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            <p>Describes how the JDBC Driver generates dates.</p>
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              <a href="b39461d3-48d6-4048-8300-1a886c00756d.htm">Using Advanced Data Types</a>
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            <p>Describes the JDBC advanced data types.</p>
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              <a href="ab8fa00f-cb16-47e2-94b8-3a76f56c2b84.htm">Understanding Data Type Differences</a>
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            <p>Describes differences between the various JDBC driver data types.</p>
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              <a href="98fa7488-aac3-45b4-8aa4-83ed6ab638b4.htm">Understanding Data Type Conversions</a>
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            <p>Describes how data type conversion is handled when using getter and setter methods.</p>
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            <p>Describes the support for the national character set types. </p>
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              <a href="32b7217e-1f0c-473d-9a45-176daa81584e.htm">Supporting XML Data</a>
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            <p>Describes the SQLXML interface. Also describes how to read and write an XML data from and to the relational database with the <b>SQLXML</b> Java data type.</p>
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            <p>Discusses the interfaces that have the SQL Server JDBC driver specific methods and constants that allow an application server to create a proxy of the class, Also discusses supports for the the java.sql.Wrapper interface.</p>
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